Melanie Phillips: Choosing lawfare over warfare

The fanaticism of the Iran regime is mirrored by a fanatical belief in international law

Has Britain entered the war against Iran? Well, yes… and no. In trying to dance carefully around a large trap door, Sir Keir Starmer has merely succeeded in falling straight through it.

Melanie Phillips: The fantasy state of "Palestine"

Time for the US and the Jewish world to start holding their supposed champions’ feet to the fire

In his barnstorming speech this week at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he lobbed one uncomfortable home truth after another at member states, US President Donald Trump told the world body itself that it was useless. Instead of stopping wars and saving lives, he said, it produced only empty words.

The problem with the UN is rather more acute than that. Supposedly the guardian of peace and justice in the world, it has become instead an avatar of evil.